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Cleveland-born Kitaj is largely self-taught. He began shipping out on cargo vessels at age 17, read voraciously during long voyages, and his art reflects his random, eclectic learning. As consummate technique, Kitaj's paintings bear the skill of a man who stayed ashore long enough to spend five years variously at Manhattan's Cooper Union, Vienna's Academy of Fine Art, Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing and London's Royal College of Art. He can coalesce flat forms with rounded ones, switch from silhouette to transparency with deft sleights of brush...
...Delight. At first even a lunge at art seemed unlikely for Johns. He grew up in Allendale, S.C., and spent a short year and a half at the state university, where the lanky, laugh-prone Southerner got a smattering of art studies. But as an artist, Johns was largely self-taught. Not until he was 27 did he get his first show. It was a virtual sellout, and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art bought three works. Three years later, in 1961, he won an award at the Carnegie International, has since shown around the world and now commands...
...become fogged with hearsay and growing legend. Author Vallier penetrates to the basic facts of his life and establishes a firm chronology of his work. She is thus able to be explicit and detailed about the development, both in content and technique, of his entirely self-taught and strangely powerful...
...chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, entered it himself as an ordinary seaman in the war, rose to lieutenant. He joined the civil service in 1929 as a tax collector. Next to Wilson, "Stoker Jim" Callaghan is the party's most skilled parliamentary debater, and though virtually self-taught in economics, he has a sound grasp of world finance. He has shown he can work well in tandem with Wilson, who plainly expects to be pretty much his own Chancellor...
Invented by Emmanuel Mitchell Trikilis, a self-taught Columbus engineer, the "Sentronic" book detector works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked...